Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This remark, though, gives the Crimson less credit than it deserves. The strong Harvard running game--helped by exceptional blocking and the ability of the defense to stand when it really had to--these were the truly decisive factors...
...remark summarized the feelings of the Western European press on the U.S. campaign. Last July, the victor over Hitler and the boss of SHAPE was the unquestioned favorite. By last week, if Ike had to run in Europe, he would lose hands down-at least in the press...
...Dunkley left Johnson with the story of how the Chicago White Sox had sold out to gamblers and thrown the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. In his beat, Dunkley dubbed the team the Black Sox-and the name stuck. A few days later he also reported the memorable remark of a boy so stunned by the news that he ran up to the Black Sox's "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, crying...
...Pace which predicted armed service for ten million young men "in the foreseeable future," Hershey said, "I haven's the slightest idea to what Mr. Pace was referring. When I first saw the headlines I though it was a misprint." He added, however, that Pace did not qualify his remark timewise...
...beyond reach of his voice. In neighboring Virginia, he openly wooed the support of Senator Harry Byrd, political boss of Virginia and open enemy of the Truman Administration. "I remember reading a crack that we have too many Byrds in Congress," said Ike, harking back to a 1949 Truman remark. "Well, I disagree; I would like some more like this...